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Michael boyd's avatar

I see MoA is back. The reason i mention in this blog is that the song MoA uses the word little boy to refer to an adult male in the Lotte Lenya original and the Doors version from 1966 has Jim Morrison asking to be shown the way to the next little girl again referring to adult. I checked the etymology of the word wife. It cmes from the old German meaning woman. That makes sense. In Scotland, at least beyond the Forth, wifey means woman not the spouse of a male. Interestingly, the phrase husband does seem to be less neutral. Apparently, it might be old Norse for head of the house. Makes we wonder if the Vikings killed of the Angle menfolk on the eastern seaboard of Britain and took the Angle females as their partners and the different linguist origins stuck by self reference. They know because of modern DNA in Shetland that is exactly what happened to the Pictish inhabitants once the Norse arrived. Britain must be the only country where the central section is called the North and the North the South. Ill I'll let your American readers work that out.

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Lantern Dude's avatar

Very interesting. Thanks, look forward to the next instalments. The connections to real life do make it more meaningful IMO. The wedding ceremony was memorable and enchanting in its symbolism - a formula for like minded humans/souls, perhaps.

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